@unpublished{FischerKaufmannDomahs2012, author = {Fischer, Martin H. and Kaufmann, Liane and Domahs, Frank}, title = {Finger counting and numerical cognition}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {3}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00108}, pages = {1}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{ZaklanCullmannNeumannetal.2012, author = {Zaklan, Aleksandar and Cullmann, Astrid and Neumann, Anne and von Hirschhausen, Christian}, title = {The globalization of steam coal markets and the role of logistics an empirical analysis}, series = {Energy economics}, volume = {34}, journal = {Energy economics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0140-9883}, doi = {10.1016/j.eneco.2011.03.001}, pages = {105 -- 116}, year = {2012}, abstract = {In this paper, we provide a comprehensive multivariate cointegration analysis of three parts of the steam coal value chain - export, transport and import prices. The analysis is based on a rich dataset of international coal prices: in particular, we combine data on steam coal prices with freight rates, covering the period December 2001 until August 2009 at weekly frequency. We then test whether the demand and supply side components of steam coal trade are consistently integrated with one another. In addition, export and import prices as well as freight rates for individual trading routes, across regions and globally are combined. We find evidence of significant yet incomplete integration. We also find heterogeneous short-term dynamics of individual markets. Furthermore, we examine whether logistics enter coal price dynamics through transportation costs, which are mainly determined by oil prices. Our results suggest that this is generally not the case.}, language = {en} } @misc{Koss2012, author = {Koss, Michael}, title = {The role of governments in legislative agenda setting}, series = {West European politics}, volume = {35}, journal = {West European politics}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0140-2382}, doi = {10.1080/01402382.2011.648482}, pages = {436 -- 437}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{SchellhasGrundmannEdelstein2012, author = {Schellhas, Bernd and Grundmann, Matthias and Edelstein, Wolfgang}, title = {Control beliefs and school achievement in the context of family socialization results of a longitudinal study}, series = {Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Forschung und Praxis}, volume = {59}, journal = {Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Forschung und Praxis}, number = {2}, publisher = {Reinhardt}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, issn = {0342-183X}, pages = {93 -- 108}, year = {2012}, abstract = {In a longitudinal sample of Icelandic children (7.9-12-15 years; n=109) the developmental relations between of control beliefs (locus of control) and school achievement were examined on the background of child rearing practices, socialization conditions, and social class from childhood to adolescence. Results show that supportive and restrictive socialization conditions in social classes affect school achievement as well as the development of control beliefs. Supportive child rearing practices in upper class families encourage the development of internal control beliefs in adolescence, and are coincident with higher school achievement. On the other hand, restrictive child rearing practices appear independent of social class and generally hinder the development of internal control beliefs and positive school achievement. Results of a path model suggest a lagged relationship between school achievement and control beliefs. School achievement in childhood (ages 7 and 9) predicts internal control beliefs in adolescence.}, language = {de} } @article{BangHoviSprinz2012, author = {Bang, Guri and Hovi, Jon and Sprinz, Detlef F.}, title = {US presidents and the failure to ratify multilateral environmental agreements}, series = {Climate policy}, volume = {12}, journal = {Climate policy}, number = {6}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1469-3062}, doi = {10.1080/14693062.2012.699788}, pages = {755 -- 763}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Whereas the US President signed the Kyoto Protocol, the failure of the US Congress to ratify it seriously hampered subsequent international climate cooperation. This recent US trend, of signing environmental treaties but failing to ratify them, could thwart attempts to come to a future climate agreement. Two complementary explanations of this trend are proposed. First, the political system of the US has distinct institutional features that make it difficult for presidents to predict whether the Senate will give its advice and consent to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and whether Congress will pass the required enabling legislation. Second, elected for a fixed term, US presidents might benefit politically from supporting MEAs even when knowing that legislative support is not forthcoming. Four policy implications are explored, concerning the scope for unilateral presidential action, the potential for bipartisan congressional support, the effectiveness of a treaty without the US, and the prospects for a deep, new climate treaty. Policy relevance Why does the failure of US ratification of multilateral environmental treaties occur? This article analyses the domestic political mechanisms involved in cases of failed US ratification. US non-participation in global environmental institutions often has serious ramifications. For example, it sharply limited Kyoto's effectiveness and seriously hampered international climate negotiations for years. Although at COP 17 in Durban the parties agreed to negotiate a new agreement by 2015, a new global climate treaty may well trigger a situation resembling the one President Clinton faced in 1997 when he signed Kyoto but never obtained support for it in the Senate. US failure to ratify could thwart future climate agreements.}, language = {en} } @article{JacksonSorge2012, author = {Jackson, Gregory and Sorge, Arndt}, title = {The trajectory of institutional change in Germany, 1979-2009}, series = {Journal of European public policy}, volume = {19}, journal = {Journal of European public policy}, number = {8}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1350-1763}, doi = {10.1080/13501763.2012.709009}, pages = {1146 -- 1167}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Over the last three decades, the German political economy can be characterized by both institutional continuity and change. Understanding the dynamics of institutional change therefore requires an examination of the interplay of changes in formal institutional rules and how organizations respond to these changes by strategic attempts to promote or hinder further change in institutions. The macro-level political story of institutional change shows a number of paradoxes resulting in unexpected and often incomplete forms of market liberalization shaped by continued support for some core features of Germany's social market economy. The resulting erosion of Germany's co-ordinated model of economic organization through networks and business associations has gone hand-in-hand with the attempts to preserve these institutions for core workers and sectors of the economy in the face of changing environments. The result is a more varied institutional landscape characterized by international diffusion of liberal policies and the politics of their variable re-embedding within a long-term path of institutional continuity.}, language = {en} } @misc{Juchler2012, author = {Juchler, Ingo}, title = {Critical political Education a guidebook}, series = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, volume = {53}, journal = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, number = {1}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0032-3470}, pages = {162 -- 164}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @article{Koss2012, author = {Koss, Michael}, title = {The determinants of parliamentary agenda powers a holistic framework for analysing parliamentary change}, series = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, volume = {53}, journal = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, number = {1}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0032-3470}, pages = {29 -- 52}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This article calls for a holistic perspective on parliamentary change through the analytical lens of parliamentary agenda powers. In addition to agenda control, the concept of agenda powers not only refers to the ability of parliamentary actors to directly influence parliamentary output through legislation (efficiency), but also to exert indirect influence through controlling the government (effectiveness) and through affecting public opinion (legitimacy). The concept of agenda powers comprises the formal institutional rules underlying the distribution of the parliamentary agenda, the factual application of these rules and the organisational powers enabling actors to make use of their time. The distribution of agenda powers can be explained by the sequencing of legitimacy, effectiveness, and efficiency reforms. Consequently, the concept of parliamentary agenda powers allows for a comparative long-term analysis of parliamentary change. Furthermore, the concept of parliamentary agenda powers enables us to operationalise normative scenarios of a de-parliamentarisation and the alleged transitions towards post- or neo-parliamentarian democracy.}, language = {de} } @article{YangBao2012, author = {Yang, Ling and Bao, Hongwei}, title = {Queerly intimate friends, fans and affective communication in a Super Girl fan fiction community}, series = {Cultural studies : theorizing politics, politicizing theory}, volume = {26}, journal = {Cultural studies : theorizing politics, politicizing theory}, number = {6}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0950-2386}, doi = {10.1080/09502386.2012.679286}, pages = {842 -- 871}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This article examines the rise of the Girls' Love (GL) fan fiction community in contemporary China. More specifically, we focus on the 'Pink Super Girl Bar', an online fan fiction community devoted to the pairing of the contestants of the 2006 season of Super Girl, an entertainment program featured on Hunan Satellite TV that enjoys great popularity in the Sinophone world. Through an ethnographic account of the formation, convention and performativity of identities and socialities in this community, we demonstrate how Super Girl GL fans mobilize their emotional capital to create artworks, to have fun and to enrich their everyday lives. We argue that the GL fan fiction community has become a space of female homosociality, intimacy and affect in which a new generation of young Chinese women actively enact friendship and female subjectivity in a way that refuses the normalization of gender, sexuality and social relations. Moreover, by linking fan studies to affect studies and emotional geography, and by paying particular attention to indigenous concepts and cultural practices in mainland China's fan communities, we wish to contribute to fan studies with feminist, queer and transnational perspectives.}, language = {en} } @misc{Stecker2012, author = {Stecker, Christian}, title = {The role of governments in legislative agenda setting}, series = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, volume = {53}, journal = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, number = {4}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0032-3470}, pages = {703 -- 705}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @misc{Ganghof2012, author = {Ganghof, Steffen}, title = {The order of public reason a theory of freedom and morality in a diverse and bounded world}, series = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, volume = {53}, journal = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, number = {4}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0032-3470}, pages = {692 -- 695}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @article{Knobloch2012, author = {Knobloch, J{\"o}rn}, title = {Between self-reference and other-reference typology and transformation of authoritarianism within the world society}, series = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, journal = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, number = {4}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0032-3470}, pages = {35 -- +}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Jorn Knobloch, Between Self-reference and Other-reference: Typology and Transformation of Authoritarianism within the World Society, pp. 35-59. The article offers a conceptual framework for the analysis of the interdependence of the world society and the new authoritarianism. At first the article criticizes existing conceptual approaches and develops a new approach, which will use the assumptions of the systems theory. In the next part we discuss different theoretical impacts of the world society and the possible reactions of the authoritarianism. The third part evaluates the theoretical reactions. Therefore we use the empirical case of Russia. The empirical investigation of the approach permits the development of a conceptual framework for the further empirical research of the new authoritarianism.}, language = {de} } @article{Wobbe2012, author = {Wobbe, Theresa}, title = {Making up People occupational classification patterns, gendered categorization, and economic inclusion around 1900 in Germany}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie}, volume = {41}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie}, number = {1}, publisher = {Lucius \& Lucius}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0340-1804}, pages = {41 -- 57}, year = {2012}, abstract = {According to gender and labor market research, differentiation of male and female work is not primarily grounded in specific tasks but rather rooted in male and female features attributed to work. In this paper, the effects of classification patterns are related to the categories used in occupational statistics. According to this argument statistical patterns contribute to gradual processes of inclusion into society by categorizing people. Put more precisely, this process of "making up people" (Hacking 1986) is conflated with gendered views of persons. This conceptual conflation is examined in the historical context of emerging occupational statistics, social sciences, and law in Germany around 1900. Inasmuch as statistical observation differentiated between economically productive and non-productive work, gendered distinctions were deeply encoded in its categories. These distinctions were institutionalized by means of the social scientific definition of role models as well as legal codification. In the conclusion, the sociology of knowledge approach followed in this paper is extended toward a discussion of broader questions of inclusion and gender inequality. In order to explain the persistence of gendered classifications in the organization of work in society, further gender inequality research needs to account for the enduring social evidence and symbolic relevance of sex classifications at the meso and macro levels.}, language = {de} } @unpublished{Sprinz2012, author = {Sprinz, Detlef F.}, title = {Long-Term environmental policy challenges for research}, series = {The journal of environment \& development : a review of international policy}, volume = {21}, journal = {The journal of environment \& development : a review of international policy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {Thousand Oaks}, issn = {1070-4965}, doi = {10.1177/1070496511435667}, pages = {67 -- 70}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Long-term policy issues are a particularly vexing class of environmental policy issues which merit increasing attention due to the long-time horizons involved, the incongruity with political cycles, and the challenges for collective action. Following the definition of long-term environmental policy challenges, I pose three questions as challenges for future research, namely 1. Are present democracies well suited to cope with long-term policy challenges? 2. Are top-down or bottom-up solutions to long-term environmental policy challenges advisable? 3. Will mitigation and adaptation of environmental challenges suffice? In concluding, the contribution raises the issue of credible commitment for long-term policy issues and potential design options.}, language = {en} } @article{Sutton2012, author = {Sutton, Katie}, title = {"We too deserve a place in the sun" the politics of transvestiteidentity in Weimar Germany}, series = {German studies review}, volume = {35}, journal = {German studies review}, number = {2}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins Univ. Press}, address = {Tempe}, issn = {0149-7952}, pages = {335 -- 354}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Cross-dressing took on new political meanings in Germany's Weimar Republic, with the emergence of organizations and periodicals aimed at promoting the interests of self-identified "transvestites." This new sexological category, developed by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910, formed the basis for a shared sense of identity and belonging among individuals who identified as members of the "opposite" sex. Drawing on the experiences of the homosexual emancipation movement and discourses of bourgeois respectability, middle-class transvestites came together to demand legal and social recognition, including acknowledgement of "transsexual" desires. Their efforts represent a critical but forgotten moment in the history of transgender political activism.}, language = {en} } @article{KrasnovaVeltriGuenther2012, author = {Krasnova, Hanna and Veltri, Natasha F. and G{\"u}nther, Oliver}, title = {Self-disclosure and privacy calculus on social networking sites the role of culture intercultural dynamics of privacy calculus}, series = {Business \& information systems engineering : the international journal of Wirtschaftsinformatik}, volume = {4}, journal = {Business \& information systems engineering : the international journal of Wirtschaftsinformatik}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {1867-0202}, doi = {10.1007/s12599-012-0216-6}, pages = {127 -- 135}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Social Network Sites (SNSs) rely exclusively on user-generated content to offer engaging and rewarding experience to its members. As a result, stimulating user communication and self-disclosure is vital for the sustainability of SNSs. However, considering that the SNS users are increasingly culturally diverse, motivating this audience to self-disclose requires understanding of their cultural intricacies. Yet existing research offers only limited insights into the role of culture behind the motivation of SNS users to self-disclose. Building on the privacy calculus framework, this study explores the role of two cultural dimensions - individualism and uncertainty avoidance - in self-disclosure decisions of SNS users. Survey responses of US and German Facebook members are used as the basis for our analysis. Structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis results reveal the distinct role of culture in the cognitive patterns of SNS users. The authors find that trusting beliefs play a key role in the self-disclosure decisions of users from individualistic cultures. At the same time, uncertainty avoidance determines the impact of privacy concerns. This paper contributes to the theory by rejecting the universal nature of privacy calculus processes. The findings provide for an array of managerial implications for SNS providers as they strive to encourage content creation and sharing by their heterogeneous members.}, language = {en} } @article{Seyfried2012, author = {Seyfried, Markus}, title = {Problems and methods of quality evaluation in different policy fields}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Evaluation}, volume = {11}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Evaluation}, number = {2}, publisher = {Waxmann}, address = {M{\"u}nster}, issn = {1619-5515}, pages = {209 -- 232}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This article distinguishes methodological problems in quality evaluation and measurement in two policy fields, namely higher education and public broadcasting. Both are characterized by similar external and internal basic conditions and are thus suitable for comparative research. The difficulties of quality measurement and evaluation are discussed with respect to three main features: (1) definition of quality, (2) operationalization of quality and (3) interpretation of quality. Furthermore the identified difficulties in both areas are not always the same, because they depend on different research criteria. Thus the debates of quality measurement and evaluation in higher education and public broadcasting can learn from each other and increase the understanding of quality measurement in general. In addition the comparative design provides opportunities for the development of methods and perspectives.}, language = {de} } @book{GildemeisterHericks2012, author = {Gildemeister, Regine and Hericks, Katja Kristina}, title = {Geschlechtersoziologie : theoretische Zug{\"a}nge zu einer vertrackten Kategorie des Sozialen}, publisher = {Oldenbourg}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, isbn = {978-3-486-58639-8}, pages = {358 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @article{Jann2012, author = {Jann, Werner}, title = {Staatsparadigma und Verwaltungsrefomen in Deutschland}, issn = {1005-4871}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @book{SpeckBackhausMaulFriedrichetal.2012, author = {Speck, Karsten and Backhaus-Maul, Holger and Friedrich, Peter and Krohn, Maud}, title = {Freiwilligenagenturen in Deutschland : Potenziale und Herausforderunen einer vielversprechenden intermedi{\"a}ren Organisation}, publisher = {Springer VS}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-531-18584-2}, pages = {211 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {de} }